as in janitor
a person who tends a door the doorkeeper held the door open for us so we didn't have to put down our packages

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Recent Examples of doorkeeper His duties were basic: sacristan, director of altar boys, doorkeeper. Maya Bell, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025 Who better to help usher us through this liminal time than an ancient doorkeeper? Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025 The store has a limit of 81 customers at a time, an employee working as a doorkeeper said. Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024 The team also took a closer look at Harwa, a mummified individual who lived around 3,000 years ago and was a granary’s doorkeeper. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024 The more that is written about Kafka, the more that his images are scrutinized—the cages and buckets and horses, the emperors and doorkeepers—the further that access recedes. Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
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Noun
  • Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a janitor who gets transformed into a grotesque mutant after a bizarre accident.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But with Winston’s newfound powers as the Toxic Avenger, Garbinger soon comes to regret his decision to neglect the janitor-turned-superhero who dispatches of the bad guys in particularly gruesome ways.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This is a black IPA, relying heavily on the roasted malts more typically used in porters and stouts.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For a wedge salad, try an IPA, a porter or a stout, but not an imperial one.
    Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Doorkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doorkeeper. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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